Dec. 9, 2025
Four holidays, one nation: How America builds belonging
From Halloween to New Year's, America's four major holidays form a deliberate cultural scaffold that lifts a diverse nation from welcoming strangers to honoring survival, strengthening intimate bonds, and finally embracing future possibility.
"Holiday Season" is not a random sequence of celebrations. It is a cultural column -- four events stacked vertically, each standing on the shoulders of the one before it. From Halloween to New Year's, America climbs from the unknown to the familiar, from gratitude to intimacy, and finally to aspiration. Together, these events reveal how a nation of immigrants creates unity without a shared past: by building upward.
At each level, the country invit...
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